AI? FuckFuckNo
Yeah. I’m actually kind of upset that I have to type ‘noai’. That should be the standard.
I’m looking forward to adding it to my browser settings as default search!
Already doable in Firefox, just right click in the search box then add search engine ;)
Just edit the ddg entry instead of adding a new one. It’s super easy to change the url for the search in settings.
Here’s a link to the Disable AI firefox plugin. Works on mobile and desktop.
You can turn all the AI features off on regular DDG search settings. Best I can tell that achuevescthe same as using the no AI filter.
Guess I’m in the 10%
Onward the Butlerian Jihad!
Even without AI, you can’t find Neocities sites there because DuckDuckGo relies on Bing.
Blatantly misleading title. Makes it sounds like it encompassed more than just search engines.
I made https://lite.duckduckgo.com/ my homepage. No AI and super fast loading. AI would be fine if it was opt-in. Shoving it into everything to see what works just makes people hate it. Looking at you MS.
Damn didn’t know about this lite version, thanks, also gonna change it into it.
I have yet to use chatgpt.
Not trying to promote the use of AI here, but being proud of not using something and having any opinion on it at the same time is very follow the herd in ignorance vibe.
Don’t do heroin, kids.
You saying anyone that has an opinion on murder has to also have murdered?
To have an opinion on how it feels to murder: yes
To understand the repercussions on society: no, because you are part of that society
I wonder what percentage of Lemmy users are absolutely sick of seeing variations of the exact same thing, over, and over, and over, and fucking over again.
The article already notes that
privacy-focused users who don’t want “AI” in their search are more likely to use DuckDuckGo
But the opposite is also true. Maybe it’s not 90% to 10% elsewhere, but I’d expect the same general imbalance because some people who would answer yes to ai in a survey on a search web site don’t go to search web sites in the first place. They go to ChatGPT or whatever.
I Prefer searx
Do you also use Arch btw?
Arch based on laptop , phone is grapheneos and lineage🤔
Nice
Meanwhile, at HQ: “The userbase hallucinated that they don’t want AI. Maybe we prompted them wrong?”
The prompt was bad: there was no option to vote for “a little bit of AI as a tool is not bad but don’t force feed it to me”.
I think there were many people who voted for “no AI” who would’ve voted for “a little bit of ai” if they had the option.
There were probably also people who voted for “yes AI” who would have voted for “a little bit of ai when I explicitly ask for it” if they had the option.
That’s when the Silicon Valley types all bring out the ol’ “People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” Well, they already showed what LLM can do and it’s not that great.
THE AI by default marketing is failing? Shocker
And how much of their budget are they blowing on AI features despite polls showing their regular users don’t even want it? Probably also 90%.
And yet it’s opt out, not opt in.
Because the poll just ended… it’s been opt out since before the poll and nothing has changed, yet (if anything does change). How is this not obvious?
They should have asked before including AI in the first place.
